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|Large Text|For enormous amounts of text data, good for a long description.| | |Large Text|For enormous amounts of text data, good for a long description.| | ||
|Number|Use this data type for whole numbers only. This type should not be used for phone numbers; they should be defined as type Text.| | |Number|Use this data type for whole numbers only. This type should not be used for phone numbers; they should be defined as type Text.| | ||
- | |Email Address|Holds email addresses. However, you won't be able to use this for message sending. Only the inbuit field 'Email Address' can be used for sending.| | + | |Email Address|Holds email addresses. However, you won't be able to use this for message sending. Only the built-in field 'Email Address' can be used for sending.| |
|Date/Time|This is for a full date and time, for example: 01/12/2014 12:45.| | |Date/Time|This is for a full date and time, for example: 01/12/2014 12:45.| | ||
|Date|This is for a date only, for example: 01/12/2014.| | |Date|This is for a date only, for example: 01/12/2014.| | ||
+ | |True/False|This is used to hold yes/no values. When importing data into these Fields, any value not equal to "Yes", "True" or 1 will be converted to False.| | ||
Having selected the data type you will be asked to supply more information about the field. This is what you will need to provide. In order to provide an example the table assumes that a field to hold the type of contact - Staff Member, Supporter, Customer, Prospect etc. | Having selected the data type you will be asked to supply more information about the field. This is what you will need to provide. In order to provide an example the table assumes that a field to hold the type of contact - Staff Member, Supporter, Customer, Prospect etc. |